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Launch Your Engineering Career with Sarasota County!
Are you a recent engineering graduate with your sights set on becoming a licensed Professional Engineer in Florida? Join a dynamic, high-performing team of dedicated County professionals and take your career to the next level with our Professional Engineering Development Program (PEDP)!
This exclusive four-year rotational program is designed to give you hands-on, practical experience across a variety of engineering departments, including: Capital Projects, Transportation, Public Utilities, and Planning & Development Services.
As a Technical Specialist enrolled in this PEDP program, you'll gain the skills, knowledge, and mentorship needed to achieve your PE licensure, while contributing to impactful projects that shape the future of Sarasota County.
But that’s not all: the program also sets the stage for your growth into engineering leadership, preparing you for roles in management, advanced technical work, and public service.
Why Sarasota County?
✔ Meaningful, community-driven work
✔ Supportive mentorship and professional development
✔ Clear pathway to PE licensure
✔ Competitive benefits in a thriving Florida community
Start your journey. Build your legacy.
Apply today and become part of something bigger - engineering a better tomorrow for Sarasota County!
About This Program
Essential functions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Practical entry level engineering project and task assignments consistent with the Professional Engineering Development Program
- Perform detailed engineering studies, review plans, and design tasks associated with assigned duties.
- Support construction projects with field site visits and construction observations duties.
- Writing and editing technical reports and engineering studies.
- Preparing plans and specifications for related activities.
- Coordinating with management, engineers and technical staff to ensure that the projects' needs are met in a timely and effective manner.
- Meeting with co-workers, municipal officials, and contractors to review project needs and coordinate field conditions.
- Following the process for obtaining approvals from various agencies.
- Researching issues related to assigned duties.
- Producing presentation and design drawings.
- Participating in Advisory Committees and Development Review Committee (DRC) Meetings.
- Reviewing proposals and presenting results at a Professional Services Review Committee meeting.
About You
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in civil engineering or related engineering field.
- Engineer Intern (EI) certificate from the Florida Board of Professional Engineers or the ability to obtain the EI certificate within the first eighteen (18) months of employment.
- Valid Florida Driver's License at the time of hire.
Preferred Qualification:
- Prior related engineering work experience, engineering internship or advanced degree.
About Everything Else
Program: The Engineer in Training (PEDP) is designed as a 4-year program.
Pay: $58,947.20/annually
Pay Merit Schedule:
- The 1st two (2) years a 3% increase is rewarded every six (6) months, dependent upon a successful performance review.
- For the remaining two (2) years, the pay schedule is moved to an annual merit increase, dependent upon a successful performance review.
- In addition to the merit increase, increases are also rewarded based upon meeting promotional milestones (to Senior Engineering in Training and then Professional Engineer) at the end of the 2nd and 4th year.
*All participants in the PEDP must successfully complete the program within 74 months or their employment with the County will be terminated unless they are able to secure another position at the County outside of the PEDP.
Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in-person interview(s).
If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents. You will need to present the following items on your first day:
1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents
- If your position requires a Florida Driver’s License, this must be one of your documents. (Your Florida Driver’s License can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List B Documents.)
2. U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card). This is a requirement of our Payroll Department and failure to provide this document could jeopardize timely compensation. (Your U.S. Social Security Card can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List C Documents.)
Benefits:
- Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more! Choose one of three great medical plans, including one with a $0 premium option, with completed preventative visits!
- For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net for additional information.
- Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms at multiple Sarasota County Government locations.
- Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)
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We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.
Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally.
A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.
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